wsincc@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl (w.v.dorst) (10/26/89)
Hello *, DOSREAD I have installed the new dosread.c on my vanilla 1.4a Minix on this XT-clone with a Seagate ST225 Harddisk for which I have hardcoded the number of heads to 4 in the kernel. Now Minix works great, and so does the new dosread (no flame on dos although I prefer Minix). So no bug reports on dosread for me. Even the better: It works great! Thanks to whoever made it and/or fixed it. I am now relieved from the burdenous taks of kermitting to DOS HD-partition, Doscopy to floppy, Minix dosread from floppy. I can now do a read on the Dos-partition of the HD. Wauw. MAIL I have the mail program of Fred van Kempen, but in the posting by Prof Tanenbaum (all of them) the wmail.h header file fails. Would anybody (Fred? Prof? ...) please post/mail this file as the mail program looks like the thing I have been waiting for: a good mailer for Minix. Wauw. DF I have the very recent posting of df.c on my small 20Meg HD with three Minix partitions, one floppy and a ramdisk, all of reasonable (no strain) sizes. It works allright, but why is there no column saying the percentage used? There a #define for it, but it is not used. Pity, because someone a couple of months ago posted a df.c with the percentage included, and I must say I like that one. Is there perhaps a 'proper Unix' way to do df? df on Ultrix gives bytes total, used and free and percent used(no inodes) and Amdahl UTS gives space total and used (no percent), and ... gives ..... My preferment goes to Inodes and Blocks total, used, free, percent, mount-on. I'll stick to my older df.c for now. Anyhow it is a big improvement to the 1.1 df. Wauw. As you may have noticed I'm quite happy with Minix (Wauw). Met vriendelijke groeten, Wim van Dorst, wsincc@tuerc3.urc.tue.nl
ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (10/26/89)
In article <1226@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> wsincc@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl (w.v.dorst) writes: > why is there no column saying the percentage used? There was, but I took it out. If we allow enough space for large disks (6 digits for each of the blocks entries and 5 for each of the inodes, the screen gets to cluttered. I prefer a readable screen. To get the percentages, use Terrence Holm's ic (integer calculator). Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)